B. B.

time out

9:18 AM

I am taking a break from blogging for a while. Hope to be back sooner than later.

Cheers, Moi

(had to post this pic, chocolate all over your face is a sign of a good New Years) ;)

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before/after

these never get old

3:47 PM

I never get tired of seeing how people take old chairs with good "bones" and reupholster them. Here are a couple of the most recent transformations found on Design Sponge.

Below is a chair my husband's cousin's wife Melinda reupholstered. She did it all on her own with no classes or previous tutoring. I am seriously impressed! Looks great!

before & after

JFF (just-for-fun)

random, but clever

12:33 PM

My brother in law was tipped the other week in origami dollar bills.

So cool, Max begged me to take a picture

Max made this little man out of the pieces.

JFF (just-for-fun)

Happy Holidays!

8:41 PM

I think this will be my last post until after the Holidays. Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!

Much Love, The Bartholomews

The cookies I won here at lovetheday arrived in the mail. They were delicious bite-sized cookies all beautifully decorated. They asked what cookies I would like and I told them to surprise me. Today we found a package on our back porch and inside were these darling shades of blue winter mitten cookies. Needless to say they are all gone and we loved every bite.

Thank you Clara's Cookies and lovetheday!

D.I.Y.

my mod-podge 3d Holiday wreath

11:52 PM

I made my mod-podge 3d wreath, finally! I got the idea from here. I began making one of these wreaths in Sept. of this year, but Fall passed too quickly and I never had a chance to finish it. So I decided to make one for Christmas!

I loved the wreaths my friend Liz made over at say yes to hoboken and decided that I was going to use green satin ribbon as well. The only item missing from these photos is my old, messy and trusty glue gun.

I didn't use small dowels to give the circles dimension. Instead I hot glued green beads that were different heights to the wreath, then hot glued the circles to the top of the beads.

Above is my finished product, it is cute and fun and mixes well with my more traditional Christmas decor.

Have a fab weekend! xoxoxo moi

Christmas

our very own sugar-cookie star tree!

10:00 AM

Last night we made our Christmas Trees out of star sugar cookies. I bought my star cookie cutters at Wal-mart. I got 4 for $3. Not bad. You can also buy some online here.

You just frost and stack, so simple. I added a little round sugar cookie cut out in between each star to give it some height. (I used the top of an old gerber bottle to cut the circles out with.)

I took a bunch of pictures while in the process of making them and realized when I got to my computer that my memory card was not in it! AAA! Such a Brooke thing to do. So I just got pics of the finished product.